How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.
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The idea of "deep time" developed with the advance of geological knowledge in the Victorian age. Rudwick has studied paleontological illustrations from that period to trace changes in how scientists visualized the prehistoric world and attempted to illustrate the span of time. He finds that the dominant themes were the conception of fossils as remnants of the biblical flood, pressure from the scientific community to refrain from flights of fancy, and the lack of complete data as a basis for reconstructions. At the same time, popular illustrations showed fantastic prehistoric monsters that captured the public imagination. Rudwick's scholarly text is heavily illustrated with pictures and quotations from source material. Although some of the pictures are lively, the topic is esoteric and requires the reader to be familiar with the history of geological science. For academic libraries.
- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Dense with prose and with disappointingly few illustrations [especially for a book about illustrations!], this book will still interest anyone interested in the history of geology. Written by an acknowledged master of the subject.
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Any scene from deep time embodies a fundamental problem: it must make visible what is really invisible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scenes from deep time, anti quior, avant les hommes, prehuman world, geological manual, prehuman history, pictorial precedents, sur les ossemens fossiles, quaternary epoch, secondary epoch, hyena den, popular geology, reconstructed skeletons, primitive world, human viewpoint, deep past, extinct monsters, practical geology, fossil reptiles, biblical illustration, earliest scenes, coal strata Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Louis Figuier, Crystal Palace, Franz Unger, Waterhouse Hawkins, John Martin, Sacred Physics, Johann Scheuchzer, Geological Society, Thomas Hawkins, Professor Owen, Bridgewater Treatise, Peter Parley, Henry De la Beche, Georges Cuvier, Ice Age, Struggles of Life, William Buckland, Coal Measures, Lyme Regis, Fossils of Germany, Garden of Eden, Josef Kuwasseg, Museum of Natural History, Penny Magazine, Pierre Boitard New!
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scenes from deep time, anti quior, avant les hommes, prehuman world, geological manual, prehuman history, pictorial precedents, sur les ossemens fossiles, quaternary epoch, secondary epoch, hyena den, popular geology, reconstructed skeletons, primitive world, human viewpoint, deep past, extinct monsters, practical geology, fossil reptiles, biblical illustration, earliest scenes, coal strata Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Louis Figuier, Crystal Palace, Franz Unger, Waterhouse Hawkins, John Martin, Sacred Physics, Johann Scheuchzer, Geological Society, Thomas Hawkins, Professor Owen, Bridgewater Treatise, Peter Parley, Henry De la Beche, Georges Cuvier, Ice Age, Struggles of Life, William Buckland, Coal Measures, Lyme Regis, Fossils of Germany, Garden of Eden, Josef Kuwasseg, Museum of Natural History, Penny Magazine, Pierre Boitard New!
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- Principles of Geology (Penguin Classics) by Charles Lyell on page 48, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sacred Theory of the Earth (Centaur Classics Ser) by T. Burnet in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Organic Remains of a Former World (History of Geology) by James Parkinson on page 18, page 19, and page 20
- Prints and Visual Communication by Jr. William M. Ivins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The World Before The Deluge by Louis Figuier in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Cultures of Natural History by N. Jardine on page 286, and Back Matter
- Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) by Ann Shteir on page 260
- Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution by David Rains Wallace in Back Matter
- The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History by Claudine Cohen in Back Matter
- Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by Helen M. Rozwadowski in Back Matter
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